1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Both Voltaire and Gibbon had the sense of history strong in them; both have set out very plainly and fully their visions of human life; and it is clear that to both of them the system in which they lived, the ! system of monarchy, of leisurely and privileged gentlefolk_s, of rather despised industrial and trading people and of downtrodden and negligible laborers, and poor and common people, seemed the most stably established way of living that the world has ever seen Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, in this period there was no ruling unifying idea in men's minds. .....
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